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Candor Deteriorates in Teams That Equate Harmony With Functional Collaboration

Candor Deteriorates in Teams That Equate Harmony With Functional Collaboration

By Rowan, Celeste

Published by epubli

English 2026 ISBN 9783565213542
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About this book

This book examines the distinction between genuine psychological safety and superficial politeness that managers frequently conflate when building team cultures. Rather than treating safety as absence of conflict, it explores how teams develop the capacity for productive disagreement, how hierarchy naturally suppresses dissenting perspectives, and how leaders inadvertently signal which truths remain unacceptable despite proclaimed openness. The exploration reveals how teams learn to perform agreement while concealing concerns, how the desire for consensus actively damages decision quality, and how status differences create invisible boundaries around acceptable contributions. It demonstrates that psychological safety operates through demonstrated response patterns rather than declared intentions. By analyzing communication dynamics across organizational contexts, the book shows how effective leaders distinguish between interpersonal respect and intellectual challenge, how they respond to unwelcome information in ways that encourage future candor, and how they structure conversations that surface conflicting viewpoints before decisions solidify. The work addresses how to recognize when teams have substituted agreeableness for authentic engagement, how to create conversational containers that tolerate discomfort without devolving into personal attacks, and how to assess whether silence indicates consensus or suppressed disagreement. This offers strategic insight for leaders seeking superior team performance through constructive friction rather than artificial cohesion.

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Candor Deteriorates in Teams That Equate Harmony With Functional Collaboration is available as eBook at 8 online bookshops. Bookshops carrying it include Bajalibros Argentina, Bajalibros Latam, Bookshop Uruguay.

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